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Monday, April 30, 2007

Great views of a cracking whiskered tern at Lough Beg this morning. News broke late last night but thankfully it hung around today - a great way to draw level with our japanese reader, and of course only the fifth Cork record too!

Galley was quiet again this morning with just a few wheatears around and a swift over Long Strand (92).

Saturday, April 28, 2007

A good few singing sedge warblers this morning around the lake (91), but little else doing. The male black redstart was still around, Galley's 3rd collared dove of the spring was knocking about Shite Lane, and there were a couple more whitethroats in. The Long Strand whimbrel flock had dropped to 10.

A cracking male black redstart was the best of it this morning at Galley, with a whitethroat in Dirk Bay also new for the year (90). It was still quiet mig-wise, with 2 wheatears the only other migs. Two shelduck flew over and a flock of 32 whimbrel at Long Strand contained 2 summer plumage bar-tailed godwits, which was nice.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

A wander round Galley this afternoon produced 2 collared doves and a wheatear at Shite Lane, however this was rather overshadowed by news of SIX glossy ibis over Farranfore (Kerry) this morning! Ah, well, at least collared dove was a year tick! (85).

Sunday, April 15, 2007

A bit more mig action this morning at Galley, with 2 willow warblers, 1 chiffchaff, 1 wheatear, 2 sand martins, 3 house martins and a female blackcap. The latter two species were new for the year, as was a sandwich tern on Kilkeran Lake mid-morning - where have they been? (84).